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L. A. GHIGHESTER.

. v CHAIR. No. 328,760. Patented 001;. 20, 1885.

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LEMUEL A. OHICHESTER, OF PHOENIOIA, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHIGHESTER CHAIR COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328.760, dated October 20,1885.

Application filed June 27, 1885. Serial No. 169.918. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEMUEL A. GHIOHEs- TER, of Phoenicia, county of Ulster, and State of New York, a citizen of the United States,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chairs,- and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the attachment of tables to high chairs; and the invention consists in a chair and table constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter shown, described, and claimed.

1 5 In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

Figurell is a side elevation of my chair and.

table; Fig. 2, a plan or top view; Fig. 3, a section through a: m, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, an under side view of table, partly in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

This invention has for its purpose a simple and efficacious method of constructing a chair and table, so that the table may be attached 2 to and detached from the chair with facility.

In the accompanying drawings, A and A represent the arms of a chair designed to be used by a child. Into the outer surface of these arms are secured pins a, and into the ends of the 0 arms are formed slots 12, the ends of the arms A and A also being provided with projections c and a shoulder, d. The table B is provided with two elongations or arms, 0, extending rearward, and having formed in them scroll- 5 shaped slots 6. Into these projections or arms at or near the points where they are united to the table are cut slots f, and through these slots pass spring-wires g, terminating at their outer ends in knobs h, and extending inward 0 along the inner frame of the table to some extent, to which frame the springs are secured.

To attach and detach the table to and from my chair it is only necessary to hook the scrollshaped slots e over the pins a, bear downward thefront of thetable causing the spring gto rest 4 5 against the ends of the arms A and A, when these ends being beveled, as at k, Fig. 3, will permit the springs g to be forced inward until they are coincident with the slots 12, formed in the ends of the arms, into which slots the springs enter by their elastic force, and when they have so entered the table is locked to the chair.

To prevent accidental unlocking of the table, and to make a rigid connection between the chair and table when the two are locked to gether, the inner end of the table abuts against the shoulders d'in the arms, and the under surface of the table is supported by the projections c thereon.

To detach the table from the chair, the knobs h are pressed forward which forces the springs 9 out of the slots 1), and the table can then be turned back and the pins a at once disengaged from the slots e in the projections C, and then removed, if desired.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination, a chair with its arms pro- 7o vidcd with pins a and slots b formed in, and shoulders d and projections a formed on, the ends of the arms, a table, B, with projections O, scroll slots 6, formed in said projections, and springs g, passing through slots in said projections and secured to the inner edge of said table B, as and for the purpose described.

LEMUEL A. GHIOHESTER.

In presence of- G. M. PLYMPTON, D. A. CARPENTER. 

